SAG-AFTRA Issues Do Not Work Order on Pandemic Thriller ‘Songbird’

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorTwo days after California Governor Gavin Newsom ok’d it, Los Angeles County is allowing barbershops, hair and nail salons and some related personal care services to reopen under modified rules. Read them here.Services must be provided outdoors.

including Time’s Up and the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles local board which voted 29-13 against recommending the contract — say that it needs stricter language on who is allowed on set and greater protections for background actors involved in nude scenes.Also Read: Time's Up Urges SAG-AFTRA Members to Vote Against Proposed Studio Contract“While we support TIME’S UP for their unique contributions to a cause in which we all believe, we completely disagree with their assumption that they have either the

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe SAG-AFTRA national board has reprimanded Los Angeles president Patricia Richardson over her refusal to remove actor Corey Feldman, who has been accused of sexual assault, from guild’s Los Angeles local sexual harassment committee.Feldman has issued a strong denial of the allegations.

David Robb Labor EditorThe national board of SAG-AFTRA on Monday reprimanded Los Angeles Local president Patricia Richardson for refusing to remove a member of the local’s Sexual Harassment Committee, even though the board says she had received “detailed complaints from women who had been subject to or witness to sexual harassment, abuse and assault” by the committee member.The board resolution does not identify the committee member, but Deadline has learned from multiple sources that it’s actor

Villa Blanca restaurant permanently closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, Lisa Vanderpump put her culinary expertise to good use while quarantined in her Los Angeles home.On Saturday, July 18, the 59-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum took to her Instagram to bring her at-home cooking show, which costars her daughter Pandora Vanderpump Sabo, to life.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorRiverdale‘s KJ Apa and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists‘ Sofia Carson have landed the lead roles as star-crossed lovers in the Adam Goodman and Michael Bay pandemic thriller production Songbird which started filming last Wednesday in Los Angeles.Told from street level through the eyes of the characters, Songbird takes place two years into the future, as a lockdown has been re-implemented after a more serious virus continues to

David Robb Labor EditorEXCLUSIVE: Ron Valentine, business agent of IATSE Stagehands Local 33 in Los Angeles, says he doesn’t expect concerts, sporting events and theatrical productions to return with audiences until 2021.

Dave McNary Film ReporterKJ Apa and Sofia Carson will star in pandemic thriller “Songbird,” joining previously announced cast Demi Moore, Bradley Whitford, Craig Robinson, Jenna Ortega, Paul Walter Hauser and Peter Stormare.“Songbird” producers announced July 8 that they had launched principal photography in Los Angeles — the first film to shoot in the city since the start of coronavirus-induced lockdown.

Celebrities disregarding the rules and doing whatever they want, possibly at the expense of others around them? How original!

Naya Rivera’s ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey, was spotted for the first time in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 9, with their son, Josey, one day after the Glee star went missing at Ventura County’s Lake Piru.The West Virginia native, 36, held the pair’s 4-year-old in his arms, in photos obtained by the Daily Mail on Thursday, as the two left Rivera’s sister, Nickayla Rivera’s L.A.

The board of SAG-AFTRA’s largest local on Tuesday voted 69 percent to 31 percent against the new TV/theatrical deal approved by the national board, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, in a videoconference meeting that resulted in a symbolic show of force signaling tumultuous times ahead for entertainment’s largest union. The 29 to 13 non-binding vote by the Los Angeles board was “essentially along party lines” one board member said, speaking on condition on anonymity.

Get Out star Bradley Whitford and Jane the Virgin actress Jenna Ortega have joined the pandemic thriller Songbird.

Following the tragic death of Broadway star Nick Cordero – who passed away on Sunday, July 5 at the age of 41 due to complications from COVID-19 – his widow, Amanda Kloots, shared that she opened Cordero’s phone for the first time since he went into the hospital on March 31. Cordero spent 95 days at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where he was conscious just a handful of times.

David Robb Labor EditorPatricia Richardson, president of the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Local, urged the guild’s members today to vote no on the union’s new film and TV contract. “The deal isn’t good enough, and now is the time to fix it,” she said during a Zoom press conference with other leaders of the opposition, which includes the local’s two vice presidents – Frances Fisher and David Jolliffe – and A.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Get Out star Bradley Whitford and Jane the Virgin‘s Jenna Ortega have boarded the pandemic thriller Songbird, which begins principal photography today.The movie from former Paramount production chief Adam Goodman and former Disney exec Andrew Sugerman’s Invisible Narratives, with Catchlight Films and Michael Bay also producing, is the first feature film to shoot in Los Angeles since the COVID-19

Dave McNary Film ReporterSAG-AFTRA’s Los Angeles board has voted to oppose ratification of a successor deal on its master contract for feature films and primetime television work.The move came Tuesday, two weeks after the national board of the performers union had approved sending out the contract for ratification by a vote of 67.6% to 32.4%.

David Robb Labor EditorThe board of directors SAG-AFTRA’s Los Angeles Local voted overwhelmingly Tuesday – strictly along the guild’s fractious party lines – to oppose ratification of the union’s new film and TV contract. The local is the union’s largest, representing just over 50% of the entire membership.Local board members voted 29-13 (69%-31%) to oppose ratification, almost exactly the reverse of the national board, which late last month voted 67.6%-32.4% to approve the contract.

SAG-AFTRA has given a greenlight for production on 7th & Union, a LatinX drama toplined by Mexican comedy star Omar Chaparro and Edy Ganem, and to start in Los Angeles on Monday. The feature from newly launched Broken English Productions has Chaparro playing Raymundo, a Mexican ex-fighter who forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man (Gregg Daniel), whose life and relationship with his daughter, played by Erinn Westbrook, are unraveling.

LOS ANGELES -- The union that represents film actors told its members Thursday not to work on the upcoming pandemic thriller “Songbird,” saying the filmmakers have not been up-front about safety measures and had not signed the proper agreements for the movie that is among the first in production after coronavirus closures. Actors had reportedly been rehearsing remotely for the film produced by Michael Bay and directed by Adam Mason.